114 senior backend developer jobs at 72 companies in Joliet, IL
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Senior Backend Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$110k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience; strong Go and Python skills; JavaScript/TypeScript desirable; experience with microservices on AWS or GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, streaming platforms (Kafka/Kinesis/MQTT), and SQL/NoSQL databases; BS/MS preferred.
Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Kafka, Kinesis, MQTT, SQL, NoSQL
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Senior Backend Engineer - Java
United States or Tampa or Boston or Atlanta or New York City or Columbus or Chicago or Philadelphia or Raleigh or Charlotte or Minneapolis or Dallas or Washington D.C. or Austin or Miami or Newark
$152k-$194k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, relational databases; experience designing event-driven microservices, strong testing practices, AI-assisted development familiarity, BA/BS or equivalent.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, JPA/Hibernate 6, Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, TeamCity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GitHub, SonarQube
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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Cloud (55446)
Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States
$108k-$126k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years professional software development experience with C#/.NET, backend systems, APIs, integrations, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud-native solutions and production support.
C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, RavenDB, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Azure Functions, App Services, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Service Bus
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Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
Go, Java, Rust
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Senior Backend Software Engineer (USA Remote)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$112k-$187k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend development experience; strong Java preferred; experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB; serverless and microservices knowledge; Git and CI/CD experience; strong problem-solving skills.
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Java, Python, Node.js, Git, GitHub Actions
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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover
Chicago or Redwood City
HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building backend services; experience with Rust or Go, SQL, microservices, gRPC/protobuf or GraphQL, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); familiarity with payments, security and compliance.
Rust, Go, gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL, SQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Backend Engineer, Credit Decisions
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$173k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor's degree and 6+ years software development experience; proficiency across stack with 2+ of Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, SQL; experience with Spark, IDEs, AWS, distributed systems, cloud services (gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes); strong engineering and collaboration skills.
Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, IDE, AWS, gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes
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Lead Backend Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$185k-$215k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years backend experience with strong Python skills, hands-on technical leadership, experience with FastAPI, relational data modeling, PostgreSQL/ORMs, AWS services, CI/CD, and mentoring engineers.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Flyway, AWS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Claude Code, Cursor, Terraform, Terragrunt, Datadog, Sentry, LangGraph, Claude Code SDK, Amazon Bedrock
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Sr. Backend Engineer – Java/Spring Boot | Onshore
Texas or Chicago or New York City
$40k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Contract
Photon: A global digital modernization firm delivering enterprise-grade backend and platform engineering services.
7+ YOE7+ years backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot, event-driven systems using Kafka, PostgreSQL, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience, CI/CD and containerization, strong testing and debugging skills.
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Senior Backend Software Engineer
Chicago or San Francisco
OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3–6+ years of software engineering experience, TypeScript, Node.js, REST API design, external-system integration, AI-driven systems experience, strong communication, and Chicago location with 20–30% travel.
TypeScript, Node.js, REST API
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k-$170k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
5+ YOESenior Python engineer with 5-7 years in large-scale systems, building SaaS/PaaS, and data management experience.
Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST, AWS, Docker, PySpark, Kafka, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Lustre, GPFS, VAST, Parquet, S3, Security: OAuth2, SAML, OpenID Connect
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Sr. Backend Software Engineer (NodeJS)
United States or Minneapolis or Philadelphia or New Hartford or Austin or Champaign or Chicago
$140k-$160k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOEExpertise in Node.js/Typescript and PostgreSQL, 8+ years backend experience with distributed systems, GraphQL, TypeORM, Nest.js; familiarity with Kubernetes, message brokers, AWS, Terraform.
Typescript, NodeJS, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, TypeORM, Nest.js, RabbitMQ, RMQ, React, AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, EKS, Microsoft Teams
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Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree with 5+ years engineering experience, 4+ years Java, GCP and Postgres experience, experience with Anthropic Claude/LLMs, and U.S. citizenship able to obtain security clearance.
Java, Python, GCP, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude, LLMs, RAG systems, AI coding assistants
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
Seattle or Milwaukee or Dallas or Columbus or Kirkland or Cincinnati or New York City or Cleveland or Oklahoma City or Austin or Albany or Chicago or St. Petersburg or Hartford or Pittsburgh or St. Louis or Miami or Sacramento or Raleigh or Minneapolis or Mountain View or Scottsdale or San Francisco or Morristown or Denver or Boston or Philadelphia or Des Moines or Overland Park or Los Angeles or Charlotte or Walnut Creek or Carmel or Houston or Arlington or Atlanta or Redmond or Bentonville or Beaverton or Nashville or Detroit or San Diego
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEMinimum 5 years in knowledge graph hydration, ontology mapping, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, and REST API development; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL APIs, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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Lead Back End Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$165k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years of software engineering experience; strong Go or equivalent-language experience; hardware, firmware, Linux, LLM, mentoring, architecture, testing, and technical communication skills.
Go, Linux, AWS, LLMs
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Staff Back End Engineer, Trading
Chicago or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Culver City or Dallas
$200k-$285k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years building low-latency trading systems, BA/BS preferred, proficient with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, strong leadership and communication.
Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
United States or Albany or Arlington or Atlanta or Austin or Beaverton or Bentonville or Boston or Carmel or Charlotte or Chicago or Cincinnati or Cleveland or Columbus or Culver City or Denver or Des Moines or Detroit or Hartford or Houston or Irving or Kirkland or Miami or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Morristown or Mountain View or Nashville or New York City or Oklahoma City or Overland Park or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Raleigh or Redmond or Sacramento or San Diego or San Francisco or Scottsdale or Seattle or St. Louis or St. Petersburg or Walnut Creek
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years in knowledge graphs, ontology mapping, R2RML, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, REST APIs, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - NT Connect
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend software development; JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin); REST/WebSocket APIs; Kubernetes/GCP; security best practices; strong problem-solving; AI tooling experience.
Java, Scala, Kotlin, REST, WebSocket, Kubernetes, GCP, OpenTelemetry, CI/CD, GitHub Copilot, Pub/Sub, Node.js
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend FinPlatform
New York City or San Francisco or Salt Lake City or Los Angeles or Seattle or Austin or Washington or Philadelphia or San Diego or Chicago or Atlanta or Australia or Canada or South America
$146k-$215k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, 4+ years with Java, experience with backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, AWS, and distributed teams.
Java, Spring, Gradle, JUnit, JVM, AWS, EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, git, DataDog, Snowflake, CDK, Terraform
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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core
San Francisco or Ottawa or Phoenix or Toronto or Los Angeles or Denver or Salt Lake City or Atlanta or Chicago or Houston or Portland or New York City or Vancouver or San Diego or Sacramento or Jacksonville or Seattle or Mexico City or Austin or Miami or Boston or Dallas or Charlotte
$141k-$267k/yr HybridFull Time
Significant backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems; strong coding in Ruby/Scala/Go/Python; expertise in reliability, observability, SLOs, and mentoring; cross-functional collaboration experience.
Ruby, Scala, Go, Python
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